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Alex Jones and his conspiracy website Info Wars, along with the alt-right, co-opted the cartoon figure Pepe the Frog to spread racist internet memes and now the original creator wants them to stop selling a poster that features the character next to alt-right heroes like Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ann Coulter, according to a federal copyright complaint filed on Monday.

While coffee often makes people less grumpy, that wasn’t the case in a contract dispute between a beverage company and the owners of feline internet sensation Grumpy Cat, who prevailed late Monday and were awarded $710,001 in damages.

Internet sensation Grumpy Cat, the feline who lamented life’s many challenges in morose memes on social media several years ago, took center stage in a contract dispute on trial in a Southern California federal courtroom on Tuesday.

A group of California high school students sued their school district on Monday, claiming the punishments they received for circulating racially offensive memes on their private Instagram accounts violate their free-speech rights.